The reports of failure continue to roll in with regard to President Barack Obama. Among 35 to 43 year-olds, more folks actually think they’d be better off with Republican moderate John McCain as President, according to the latest polling. I can certainly say we’d all be better off with conservative Sarah Palin as Vice President.
We know this is true because recently, on account of President Obama’s weak, apologetic style, his policy direction, and his myriad of broken promises, liberals and Democrats bashed well-known pollster Scott Rasmussen and his daily tracking and other valuable polls, claiming all his polls were somehow biased against them (they never stipulated exactly how that was, they just said it, possibly followed by “the science is settled”, and “the debate is over”, and of course “you’re stupid!”).
Or to put it another way, wah, wah.
In actual fact, Rasmussen is practically a wizard of polling, having predicted the last presidential election to within 1/10 of 1% accuracy, and similar results in other elections. Or to put it the way liberals might put it, “Rasmussen’s a Nazi!” And “a racist”. Possibly also “a homophobe”.
Then came Gallup, CNN, ABC, CBS, and myriad other polls, all bolstering Rasmussen’s numbers and suggesting almost exactly the same thing: Obama is failing in terms of approval, favorability, and/or success. That is pure science, and there’s no other way to put that.
In the latest Quinnipiac University poll (a very respected polling resource), among other similar results on Obama’s success/failure rate (American voters are split 45 – 45 percent in their poll), half the voters now think they’d have been just as well off with John McCain (35% to 37%).
On that same question, black voters still believe they’re better off with Obama, by a margin of 65% (better with Obama) to 2% (better off with McCain). White folks are more evenly split at 31-43 percent. (For the benefit of liberal Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid, I looked it up and no, they didn’t divide it into “light-skinned” or “really dark”, or whether or not the black voters had a “Negro” swagger.)
Here’s half the problem: It’s question number 17 on the Quinnipiac poll:
Would you say that Barack Obama – shares your views on issues that you care about or not?
Yes — 46%
No — 50%
That’s because Americans are basically conservative. Not “progressives” or socialists, or liberals. In fact as if to prove this, in a recent (released January 7, 2010) poll (one which is conducted every year and has been for decades), Americans describe themselves as “conservative” by 40%, and “liberal” at only half that number or 21%. Go ahead and read that again. You know you want to. And then next time liberals speak as though every one in the room agrees with them, speak up and refute them. Most folks will agree with you and thank you.
Conservatives Finish 2009 as No. 1 Ideological Group
Uptick owing largely to more independents calling themselves conservativeby Lydia Saad
January 7, 2010 1:13 PMPRINCETON, NJ—The increased conservatism that Gallup first identified among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the final year-end political ideology figures confirm Gallup’s initial reporting: conservatives (40%) outnumbered both moderates (36%) and liberals (21%) across the nation in 2009.
…Or to put it the way Harry Reid might put it, Americans are “Negroes”.
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